The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-14
A GOOD SHORTHAND WRITER.
He Must Have the Firmest, soundest
Nerxe-What the Trouble Is

He Must Have the Eirmest, soundest
Nerye-What the Trouble Is
IT, the first place. to be a good short
hand writer tand a second rate one Is not
worth the room he taxes requires the RI
NEST soIndeSt nerve. No business that
can be name | takes 50 much out of one
as shorthand reporting. Hearing, eye
sight, hand and brain are called upon for
their highest work and the most intense
attention. Sandy haired boys of sanSIine
temperament or pale Tipped dark ones
Shout choose outdoor work AMI let re-
pOrtines il every case alone, except for
amusement. Hundreds of such young
men are e; rried to- their graves every
year from tine offices and newspapers of
the citg who might he hale, long lived
men if they had not mistaken their VEGA
ton. Lean. wiry men and women are
best for desk work. and stand the drain
of in.ioo. life with least loss. The young
men and women who have a secret desire
for cay POSITIONS should let shorthand
alone.
The shorthand writer, like the typical
news - ~ man, wants to have the widest
INTEL. <,-.i,.,. I,s~illc-to know something
about ever, timing. at least enough To know
what 8; tl.,esi about For not only mer-
charts ami lawyers. but physicians, eoi-
tors ami literary men. to say nothing of
politicians. ;tF,' coming to find the scrN ices
of a shorthand writer of great use in their
prnf,~s-s MS. And to IL. of use. lac must
Ia a man who takes things at wOT,l, who
knows u Geographical name or a character
in Ii; tory or fiction when he hears il,
without stopping to- ask what that word
was AMI bothcTing To have it Spelled
Proves WHEEL goes far to drive the prin-
cipal Debating ont of his senses.
The secretary needs such keen and close
attention rs to catch the direction and the
exact words without having to utter that
irritating What every ten minutes or
oftencr. breaking the thread of thought
and wasting time when his express bust
ness il To make the most of it for an over
weighted principal whose moments are
precious. Then, as corresponding clerk
or secretary, he must have the forms of
good business address ut command, SO that
he can put curt directions into courteous
anil well turned phrase. An order worth
thouslueLs may be lost the house by too
stiff Il tone, the offensive independence of
phrase. or one which has something
over polite and solIcitoIs about it.
II want Il man" said Il Boston MGR
chant asking for a stenOgrapheT, ''who
can take my idea in three words and put
it into shape iii Il letter, neatly written,
spaced and directed. If [ can get such a
man hes sure of a good place as long rs
I'm going" But the clever head of a
reference office he applied to could only
shake his head and say, IF we hal
twenty such men they would all find
places tomorrow ami as many the day
after
\ Keen business man of wide expert
encc in mauy Limbs of work says: The
trouble with tilrec-fourths of the young
men anl girls who learn shorthand and
tyIewliting is they don't know anything.
They expect to get along by knowing
their one branch and nothing else, and it
is no use You get clever girl ut a
typcwriter-one who can rattle of eighty
words of the Declaration of Independence
a minute. or Loa.~fclIow's Psalm of Life
or anything she knows by hcart-and
sit hcr down to- write a business letter
from ,!ictatiun. and sine has To stop and
turn hcT machine up every three Lines to
see il she has spelled Il word right.
1t put; one out. and makes the mail
late. Or she lets it go with a blunder
that woJIil disgrace an infant scholar,
ami there isn [ time To write IT over
Sometimes tie whole batch of 4 morning
hszj To TX done over. if L happen To say
Buenoj AvIt~, she H. dtIinbiuUndei, don {
know what h-atlIcn I'm naming and |
must write ii oUt LeforV she knows what
is meant, and Chattahoochee would floor
her forever.
That's my business. Now, if I'm
debating ON time for my TaPcr-not
minatc IL spare, and it isn't the least
matter how ;. look, and the proof reader
minds the spelling. ten 10 one shell have
her eraser 0llt every other line To- correct
some fauci,sI blenish. :Iti,! You can { get
it into Ilvr heal or lrcr either that all
yo.t S.-l.sj i to drive ahead and SET that
mailu5rriI.t jerh,sl mp to the printer > in
fifteen seconds. That 5 what | call want
of intcl.i-,-Gcc. And out of goo young
men AMI women We tried to fit for type
writer secretaries. there were not five
should call good ones. who cOuiI he
trusted To write letter without some
shabby blunder in spelling or phrase. -
New York Star.